ATHENS —Years ago, quilting friends Sandy Benjamin-Hannibal and Peggy Hartwell came to Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery on Fourth Street, looking for the grave of Harriet Powers, an African American quilter ...

Harriet Powers died more than a century ago, but this Athens woman who was a former slave is remembered today as one of the most important figures in the culture of quilt making. A quilt that Powers ...

HARRIET POWERS DAVIS, age 83, of Plantation passed away on November 25, 2014. She was born in Willard, N.C. Harriet was predeceased in 1979 by her husband, Rev. James Davis, a Presbyterian minister, ...